parapet
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A Union officer whom Butler sent to Camp Parapet reported that the soldiers’ influence was creating chaos on nearby plantations.
From Slate • Sep. 22, 2015
Upon arriving in New Orleans, Phelps established Camp Parapet just upriver from the city and made it known that he would welcome and protect slaves who managed to escape to his encampment.
From Slate • Sep. 22, 2015
Respecting the Parapet for mere safeguard upon buildings not military, there are just two fixed laws.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John
Parapet, par′a-pet, n. a rampart breast-high, to protect soldiers on a wall from the fire of an enemy: a breast-high wall on a bridge, house-roof, a platform, &c., to prevent persons from falling over.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
March the 17th, the Parapet of the great Gun Battery was very near raised to the Embrasures.
From A Journal of the Expedition to Carthagena With Notes: In Answer to a Late Pamphlet Entitled, An account of the Expedition to Carthagena by Anonymous
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